About: Erik Muhs

Education:

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho, 1994 E.I.T.

Experience:

Erik makes use of his BSEE converting schematics into bills of materials. Having another engineer work with your schematics, after the designer sign off, adds another layer of bug trapping to the Infinetix design process. Erik's perspective is from the component viewpoint, which is different from the designer's functionality viewpoint. This reveals points that can be addressed before the project ever reaches its first physical prototype. Erik's step also serves to capture footprint errors before the design reaches the PCB layout process.
Erik's programming abilities enable him to automate some aspects of the bill of material creation thereby reducing time requirements from days to hours and that saves customer money. These improvements also eliminate transcription errors when copying vendor part information into the bill of materials.
Erik also performs as production manager when we are asked for small production runs. Responsibilities include procurement of all necessary materials: electronics, hardware, sheet metal, etc. Meeting scheduled timeline goals is a part of this work too. During these production runs Erik operates our batch soldering machine.
WORK HISTORY:
From 1988 to 1998 Erik served the analytical chemistry industry. During 1999 at Infinity Sports Marketing, Erik worked as a project manager and field engineer installing large LED video scoreboards. In the later part of 1999 Erik worked as a contract analytical chemistry technician.
2000 to present - Erik works as a component engineer and production manager. With a BSEE, Erik brings a level of knowledge to the purchasing department that benefits clients through reduction of unnecassary part purchases.